There’s a special place in our hearts for the Summer Open-Air Movie Marathon. I suspect it’s a Nicosia thing. The coastal towns fill up during the summer but the capital empties, prompting an exquisite feeling of liberation (especially in August, when the annoying people who complain about the heat go on holiday). Traffic thins, urban noise subsides during the day, and a similar magic unfolds in the evenings – 9pm at the Konstantia Open-Air Cinema in Pallouriotissa from Wednesday to Sunday, to be precise – when movies come with a cool breeze, the occasional snarl of a distant motorbike, and the night sky stretching out behind the screen. Watching films under the stars seems especially apt in a Nicosia summer; like the half-empty city, it’s both familiar and not.
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